USDA and HHS launch Harvest to Hallways, investing in school kitchens, local farm procurement, and nutrition research to bring real food to cafeterias.
Bravo Secretaries Rollins and Kennedy! Only dyed in the wool ideologues will object to this thoughtful, sensible program. Healthy adults come from healthy children. Well done, MAHA!
The viable solution??? Homeschool // It is not the Gubmints responsibility to feed your kids.
"The Pennsylvania Beef Council, meanwhile, is scaling an existing farm-to-school model that connects cattle producers, processors, and distributors directly with schools. Its PA Beef to PA Schools program has already built relationships with more than 140 schools; USDA funding will support sourcing assistance, recipes, menu development, and agricultural education as the program expands statewide."
Really?? PA has a council to indoctrinate kids into eating dead cows. Under the veil of health...
Sorry, missed the mark...
One does not "produce" cattle, the flowery language is actually INSANE.
Howz about emphasizing organic plant based food for the win!!!
Oh boy! 🙄🙄🙄 “dead cows” as you call them are a food source that are not only nutritious but delicious! The choice is yours of course but quit trying to make OUR food choices for us. This is why we are eating processed crap right now because our government made these decisions without our knowledge or consent while we weren’t looking.
After seeing what is given at the schools, I could not in good conscience continue.
The highly processed, preservative and sugar laden snacks are creating a whole new generation of poor nutritional habits in kids. It is very sad. I’m hoping the new (and existing) efforts can be multiplied in such a way to improve the future of our kids. Go MAHA
Created, not creating. A trip to Costco shows what these young parents and children consider food. Mostly garbage. Do you realize how ridiculous it is to suggest it possible
to "make America Healthy? The responsibility for health falls on every shoulder, it is a life long missive.
Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act created federal nutritional minimum standards for school meals - and other nutritional and fitness programs for children. The 2010 law explicitly sought to bring more food from local farms and gardens into school meals. HHFKA improved school meals while increasing use of food from local farms and gardens.
HHFKA gave USDA new regulatory authority to impose detailed nutritional requirements on federally subsidized school meals. USDA subsequently implemented new meal patterns, including requirements concerning fruits and vegetables, whole grains, calories and fats.
The Obama administration explicitly presented the law as an intervention against childhood obesity and unhealthy eating. Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign was closely associated with it.
Harvest to Hallways is putting token amounts of money into how schools obtain and prepare food:
$50 million for cafeteria equipment and infrastructure and "up to $25 million" in additional Farm to School grants and $30 million in NIH research funding
promotion of an already existing Local Option procurement mechanism
encouragement of the Pledge for Healthier School Meals
Without the shows? Michelle literally created shows (full TV appearances and cooking and cartoon shows) and book tours and morning show appearances. She created Waffles and Mochi and Obama appeared on that show. They gathered celebrities and famous athletes for the Let's Move! campaign on the white house lawn. And so what? We should applaud every effort to improve the lives and nutrition for our kids. SIDES BE DAMNED. I'm so tired of the what abouts out here.
She appeared on talk shows and in news program segments about 10 times each of the first two years (Today, Leno, Ellen, Fallon, GMA), then about 5 per year, mostly around anniversary of rollout (post-holiday, Jan - Feb). They last few years those were folded into broader initiatives.
She was FLOTUS - Not a Cabinet secretary, not leading an agency, not a legislator. And they sit all over her for recommending exercise and healthier food, and for keeping and encouraging vegetable gardening.
Call and raise. Have forgotten more than Sec Ken knows about nutrition.
Mental health is facilitated by consistently promoting many behaviors to include dietary consideration. Biological yeah?? Happen to hold doctorate level ed, masters in nutrition
Imagine knowing something about health not expecting the Gubmint to raise your kids, or to feed them.
The viable solution??? Homeschool It is not the Gubmints responsibility to feed your kids.
"The Pennsylvania Beef Council, meanwhile, is scaling an existing farm-to-school model that connects cattle producers, processors, and distributors directly with schools. Its PA Beef to PA Schools program has already built relationships with more than 140 schools; USDA funding will support sourcing assistance, recipes, menu development, and agricultural education as the program expands statewide."
Really?? PA has a council to indoctrinate kids into eating dead cows. Under the veil of health...
Sorry, missed the mark...
One does not "produce" cattle, the flowery language is actually INSANE.
Howz about emphasizing organic plant based food for the win!!!
Please figure out how the largest school systems in the country could cook meals from scratch. Having a child who went through the NYC school system the time and pay scale for cooks and kitchen staff was very low. Add in the overcrowded schools and lack of a decent meal period for each child it is amazing to see that children were fed. The city school system put in place all the nutritional standards that the Obamas started but good home cooked meals were not present. Please, please, please change the system from the ground up. 🙏
The nutrition standards that you mentioned were not as high as they are now, not enough protein and only included low fat meals including low fat dairy. Children need fuel and greater density nutrient foods and as the author stated that system did not have the full structural implementations.
You are absolutely correct there. Our nutrition standards have evolved a lot. They were then in compliance with the USDA standards but thank goodness we have new standards.
My Mom always sent my lunch box with me to PS 104 in Brooklyn in 1965, when I was in first grade. We ate in an auditorium, not tables. I don't recall food being served.
I wonder if MAHA, Sec Kennedy & Sec Rollins understand how K-12 qualified each food or ingredient for the menu? For example, in a past life I worked at Heinz, their lobbyists were able to get sugary ketchup classified as counting as a fruit. There are other disgusting things such as turkey goo cooked in a bag to resemble a turkey breast. No muscle meat in there at all, just squishy slime, preservatives and thickeners. (They sell some of the same crap in grocery stores. You can tell by the price. The real stuff with whole muscle is usually obvious but, always ask to look at the ingredients when at the service deli).
1981 under Saint Ronnie and his Relublican-controlled Senate. There is no evidence that Heinz lobbyists were involved. Actually. one of the most conspicuous opponents was Republican Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania, whose family owned the Heinz company. He publicly ridiculed the idea, saying ketchup was a condiment.
But it's more complicated than ketchup = vegetable.
It’s not that complicated, it was a grift from the big companies to sell their processed foods into the largest segment of foodservice where the “customer/kids” have zero choice. The typical greased palms scenario.
The K-12 segment is a huge garbage dump for the most disgusting “food” you will ever see. During the years I was there the reformulation and R&D of ketchup and most of the sauces you see in fast food chains is mostly chemicals and thickeners w/ fake flavorings.
Once I saw what was in the formulas, I never ate any of them again.
Bravo Secretaries Rollins and Kennedy! Only dyed in the wool ideologues will object to this thoughtful, sensible program. Healthy adults come from healthy children. Well done, MAHA!
Well said, thank you!
The viable solution??? Homeschool // It is not the Gubmints responsibility to feed your kids.
"The Pennsylvania Beef Council, meanwhile, is scaling an existing farm-to-school model that connects cattle producers, processors, and distributors directly with schools. Its PA Beef to PA Schools program has already built relationships with more than 140 schools; USDA funding will support sourcing assistance, recipes, menu development, and agricultural education as the program expands statewide."
Really?? PA has a council to indoctrinate kids into eating dead cows. Under the veil of health...
Sorry, missed the mark...
One does not "produce" cattle, the flowery language is actually INSANE.
Howz about emphasizing organic plant based food for the win!!!
Oh boy! 🙄🙄🙄 “dead cows” as you call them are a food source that are not only nutritious but delicious! The choice is yours of course but quit trying to make OUR food choices for us. This is why we are eating processed crap right now because our government made these decisions without our knowledge or consent while we weren’t looking.
Howz about this "Holy Cow" Just stop the killing, it is not a "food choice" it is
normalizing killing. Have not eaten any processed crap in many decades
by CHOICE. Stopped eating deal animals, also, many decades ago.
You are crowing about nutrition and bloody carcass being delicious.
A trip to the "garden" suggests otherwise.
The responsibility for health falls on every shoulder. If you chose not to "look"
that is on you sweet pea. Anything can be learned as food choice.
Excess protein (dead animal muscle) causes a host of ill health issues.
Malignancy, but kidney problems to include bone density (osteoporosis) problems. Without addressing the spiritual issues.
Wake up people, wake up.
Highly processed "food-like" items have "no" place in our schools.
Our children deserve nothing less than "real" food.
This is great news!
I used to volunteer at our local Food Bank.
After seeing what is given at the schools, I could not in good conscience continue.
The highly processed, preservative and sugar laden snacks are creating a whole new generation of poor nutritional habits in kids. It is very sad. I’m hoping the new (and existing) efforts can be multiplied in such a way to improve the future of our kids. Go MAHA
Created, not creating. A trip to Costco shows what these young parents and children consider food. Mostly garbage. Do you realize how ridiculous it is to suggest it possible
to "make America Healthy? The responsibility for health falls on every shoulder, it is a life long missive.
Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act created federal nutritional minimum standards for school meals - and other nutritional and fitness programs for children. The 2010 law explicitly sought to bring more food from local farms and gardens into school meals. HHFKA improved school meals while increasing use of food from local farms and gardens.
HHFKA gave USDA new regulatory authority to impose detailed nutritional requirements on federally subsidized school meals. USDA subsequently implemented new meal patterns, including requirements concerning fruits and vegetables, whole grains, calories and fats.
The Obama administration explicitly presented the law as an intervention against childhood obesity and unhealthy eating. Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign was closely associated with it.
Harvest to Hallways is putting token amounts of money into how schools obtain and prepare food:
$50 million for cafeteria equipment and infrastructure and "up to $25 million" in additional Farm to School grants and $30 million in NIH research funding
promotion of an already existing Local Option procurement mechanism
encouragement of the Pledge for Healthier School Meals
Obama did this 15 years ago without the shows - https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/news/obama-era-school-nutrition-policy-led-better-diets-students-faces-changes
New spin on longstanding program.
Then why are kids still obese? Obviously, it needs to be done better. It wasn't good enough.
Don't know. Why is the Strait of Hormuz closed now? And why is Iran a bona fide regional power calling the shots now, obviously?
This new thing adds a pittance of funding and a lot of social media - and cronyism (of course).
None of what you're saying about Iran is true. Nice try, though.
Even you are not that deep in it.
“Is not!” - “IS NOT!” - How’s the pretend “real estate” gig Clara?
Seems like WA has way bigger problems than not eating vegetables.
Maybe the messenger wasn't credible.
Passed by the 112th Congress - R 242, D 193
In effect 113th Congress - R 234, D 201
In effect 114th Congress - R 247, D 188
In effect 115th Congress - R 241, D 194
In effect during the Emperor's first term
Maybe they actively fought it, even ridiculing it, until the Fox-sheep learned it was a “new” shiny object. Now tell me about Washington State.
Good luck with your hate and rage.
Obama Good --- Healthy children Bad
Great outlook!!
Without the shows? Michelle literally created shows (full TV appearances and cooking and cartoon shows) and book tours and morning show appearances. She created Waffles and Mochi and Obama appeared on that show. They gathered celebrities and famous athletes for the Let's Move! campaign on the white house lawn. And so what? We should applaud every effort to improve the lives and nutrition for our kids. SIDES BE DAMNED. I'm so tired of the what abouts out here.
She appeared on talk shows and in news program segments about 10 times each of the first two years (Today, Leno, Ellen, Fallon, GMA), then about 5 per year, mostly around anniversary of rollout (post-holiday, Jan - Feb). They last few years those were folded into broader initiatives.
She was FLOTUS - Not a Cabinet secretary, not leading an agency, not a legislator. And they sit all over her for recommending exercise and healthier food, and for keeping and encouraging vegetable gardening.
Obama did this with bipartisan legislation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy,_Hunger-Free_Kids_Act_of_2010
This is wonderful! Check with lettucegrow.com. This could be a classroom project that would help kids watch their plants grow in the classroom.
Absolutely outstanding
America leading the world once again
Figuring out the processes of implementing real nutrition to the young
Outstanding investment that will pay dividends
Giving them the nutrients their biological bodies require to be at their best
Better physically and better mentally
Imagine what these children are going to achieve as they grow into your future
Call and raise. Have forgotten more than Sec Ken knows about nutrition.
Mental health is facilitated by consistently promoting many behaviors to include dietary consideration. Biological yeah?? Happen to hold doctorate level ed, masters in nutrition
Imagine knowing something about health not expecting the Gubmint to raise your kids, or to feed them.
BOT
Better off Thinking?? Try it sweet pea
Who would ever oppose this?
Those who do not feed on dead animals, perhaps.
Healthier dead animals is a step, one supposes...
Great work!!
At last we get some common sense. Bravo/brava,
Common sense was never common.
Truth Seeker
just now
The viable solution??? Homeschool It is not the Gubmints responsibility to feed your kids.
"The Pennsylvania Beef Council, meanwhile, is scaling an existing farm-to-school model that connects cattle producers, processors, and distributors directly with schools. Its PA Beef to PA Schools program has already built relationships with more than 140 schools; USDA funding will support sourcing assistance, recipes, menu development, and agricultural education as the program expands statewide."
Really?? PA has a council to indoctrinate kids into eating dead cows. Under the veil of health...
Sorry, missed the mark...
One does not "produce" cattle, the flowery language is actually INSANE.
Howz about emphasizing organic plant based food for the win!!!
Please figure out how the largest school systems in the country could cook meals from scratch. Having a child who went through the NYC school system the time and pay scale for cooks and kitchen staff was very low. Add in the overcrowded schools and lack of a decent meal period for each child it is amazing to see that children were fed. The city school system put in place all the nutritional standards that the Obamas started but good home cooked meals were not present. Please, please, please change the system from the ground up. 🙏
The nutrition standards that you mentioned were not as high as they are now, not enough protein and only included low fat meals including low fat dairy. Children need fuel and greater density nutrient foods and as the author stated that system did not have the full structural implementations.
You are absolutely correct there. Our nutrition standards have evolved a lot. They were then in compliance with the USDA standards but thank goodness we have new standards.
My Mom always sent my lunch box with me to PS 104 in Brooklyn in 1965, when I was in first grade. We ate in an auditorium, not tables. I don't recall food being served.
Dad got orders and we moved away again.
Had you consisered the responsibility to feed your kid is yours???
Yes! It is always the parents first responsibility. This is what I saw first hand. I'm just sharing some things I saw and heard. 🙏
BOT
Such a relief to see these changes.
I wonder if MAHA, Sec Kennedy & Sec Rollins understand how K-12 qualified each food or ingredient for the menu? For example, in a past life I worked at Heinz, their lobbyists were able to get sugary ketchup classified as counting as a fruit. There are other disgusting things such as turkey goo cooked in a bag to resemble a turkey breast. No muscle meat in there at all, just squishy slime, preservatives and thickeners. (They sell some of the same crap in grocery stores. You can tell by the price. The real stuff with whole muscle is usually obvious but, always ask to look at the ingredients when at the service deli).
1981 under Saint Ronnie and his Relublican-controlled Senate. There is no evidence that Heinz lobbyists were involved. Actually. one of the most conspicuous opponents was Republican Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania, whose family owned the Heinz company. He publicly ridiculed the idea, saying ketchup was a condiment.
But it's more complicated than ketchup = vegetable.
It’s not that complicated, it was a grift from the big companies to sell their processed foods into the largest segment of foodservice where the “customer/kids” have zero choice. The typical greased palms scenario.
The K-12 segment is a huge garbage dump for the most disgusting “food” you will ever see. During the years I was there the reformulation and R&D of ketchup and most of the sauces you see in fast food chains is mostly chemicals and thickeners w/ fake flavorings.
Once I saw what was in the formulas, I never ate any of them again.
Makes sense. Did HHFKA help at all with what they were actually fed?
Commercial condiments have thickeners and preservatives. Hard to avoid unless you have some abuelitas in the back making salsa.
You just made a superb case not to eat gubmint sanctioned "foods"
Now up the ante and refrain from the dead animal normalizing
Great information Steph
Excellent. ✝️🇺🇲✅️👀💯
IMHO: Very good and worthwhile article.